Provincial Court Proceedings, 1675.  587




       Hicks or Pickering he knew not, humbly praying the Court that he Liber M M
       may have satisfaction for their passages as the Court shall thinke
       fitt. Whereupon Ordered that the goods be Secured till further
       Order and that Wm Hide pay the said Wm Nicholls eleaven hun
       dred pounds of tobacco & be free, this cause to containe till the
       morren [ing]
         Now here at this day to wit the Sixth day of May in the yeare p.
       aforesaid It is ordered by the Court here that the passangers pay
       for their passages and the Goods pay the freight of the goods if any
       be due, and that the goods remaine in the custody of the Sheriff till
       further Order of Court.

       May the 7th 1675
         Ordered that the Sheriff lett the Arbitrators have sight of the
       goods in question & in Order thereunto that the Keyes of the truncks
       & Chest be delivered the Sheriff.

       May the 8th 1675
         Then Came the Said Wm Hide and John Pickering into Court and
       acknowledged to be willing to Stand to the Umpirage then made
       between them by Charles Boteler which followeth vizt.
         To all Christian people to whom this prsent writeing of Award
       and Umpirage indented Shall come Charles Boteler of Calvert
       County in the Province of Maryland Sendeth Greeting in Our Lord
       God everlasting Whereas divers questions controversies and suits
       have been commenced had moved and depending Between John
       Pickerin of the Citty of Bristoll merchant of the One part and
       William Hide of the Citty aforesaid Cuttler on the other part aswell
       for and concerning severall goods brought & imported into this
       Province of Maryland as also for divers other causes & actions for
       the appeaseing whereof either of the Said parties have elected Ray
       mond Stapelfort of Dorchester County and David Driver of St
       Maries County Arbitrators indifferently chosen to award Arbitrate
       determine & to judge all controversies variances suits, actions plaints
       & demands whatsoever & to that end have bound themselves either
       to other by Obligation in the Summe of forty thousand pounds of
       tobacco to stand to & abide the award arbitrament finall end and
       judgment of the said Arbitrators Yet so that the said Arbitrators
       shall give in their award under their hands and Seales by twelve
       of the clocke at noone upon the Seventh day of May instant, and if
       no such award as aforesaid were given up at the time aforesaid then
       the said partyes did bind themselves to Stand to the award and
       Umpirage of me the said Charles Boteler for and concerning the
       premisses Now Know Yee That I the Said Charles Boteler (by rea
       son that no such award be given in as aforesaid by the Said Arbitra
       tors) haveing taken upon me the charge of the said Award and